Combination walking-cane



W. PLAM & A. G. BRANDT. GOMBINATIUN WALKING GANE.'

Patented O`ot. 8, 1889.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM FLAM AND ANDREW G. BRANDT, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,379,

dated October 8, 1889.

Application filed May 18, 1889. Serial Nc. 311,302. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM FLAM and ANDREW G. BRANDT, citizens of the United States, .residing at Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Combination Walking-Cane, of which the following is a specification.

This invention hasrelation to a combined walking-stick and camp-stool, and among the objects in view are to provide the same with certain other adjuncts of utility, in this instance comprising a fan, a drinking-cup, and a whistle.

The invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l represents a perspective of a cane constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective when in position as a campchair. Fig. 3 is a detail in perspectiveof the seat-receiving socket, which is also adapted to serve as a drinking-cup and handle for the cane. Fig. 4 is a perspective in detail of the ferrule, which is provided with a fan; and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the same, the fan being in place.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the igures of the drawings.

1 represents the staff or stick portion, serving as a cane,which is divided longitudinally into three sections, substantially triangular in cross-section, and designated as 2. The Vsections 2 at about their centers are connected by means of bolts 3, and in such a manner as adapted for parting at their top and bottom, so as to form a tripod when opened. The npper ends of the tripod support a three-cornered canvas seat 4, the three corners of which are secured to the upper extremities of the sections 2 by means of tacks 5. When in this position, the cane4 is adapted to be used as a chair, as shown in Fig. 2.

v 6 represents the handle of the cane, and the same consists of a metal socket hollow to receive the seat 4 when the cane is folded or closed and to receive the upper ends of the three sections 2, from which said socket is readily removable.

-7 represents the ferrule of the cane, in the lower end of 'which we form a whistle 8, so constructed as to give a shrill call, ordinarily known as hunters whistles. Within the ferrule 7 we mount a movable sleeve 9,which is adapted to receive a neat linen or other folding fan l0. The fan 10 is of that construction that when open is circular in shape, which is formed by a series of radiating creases, all as is well known. Abutton 11 is secured -to the center of the fan at its top and from the same projects a pull-cord 12. The opposite edges of the fan at their cornersare connected to the lower end of the fan, so that as the sleeve 9 is forced within the ferrule the fan is drawn into the sleeve and packed snugly in a closed position. The pull-cord is now pushed in after the fan and the ferrule applied to the bottom of the walking-stick.

By our invention it will be seen that we have provided aneat and tasty stick adapted to serve as a seat or stool, and provided with a handle of such construction as adapts the same to serve as a drinking-cup, and with a ferrule provided with a whistle and a fan.

Having described our invention, what we claim isn l. A walking stick having a ferrule provided-with a fan adapted to be withdrawn from the ferrule and pushed therein, substantially as specified.

2. A walkingstick provided with a ferrule having a sliding sleeve adapted to be forced within the ferrule and carrying a fan con-4 structed to open when the sleeve is drawn out and to close within the same when the sleve is pushed in, substantially as specifie 3. The herein-described walking-stick, consisting of the sections 2, pivoted, as at 3, and having at their upperends the'seat 4, secured, as at 5, and having the handle 6, adapted to receive the seat and serve as a drinkingcup,

and having at their lower ends the feirule 7, In testimony that we claim the foregoing as terminating in a Whistle 8 and carrying the our own We have hereto aixed our signatures fan 10, substantially as specified. in presence of two witnesses.

4. A combination Walking-stick consistin` 5 of the pivoted sections 2, carrying the seat 4 WILLIAM FLAM.

at the top, the hollow handle 6, in the form ANDREW G. BRANDT.

of a cup, to conne the seat and the upper ends of the sections, and the fel-rule 7 at the Witnesses:

bottom carrying the sliding and folding fan GEO. B. DAVIDSON, :o 10, as set forth. l Y E. H. SHURTLEFF. 

